Tornadoes, floods, and severe storms are in season elsewhere on the continent. Now, to these destructive forces must be added the hazard of the hurricane. From the National Hurricane Center in Miami. a radar fence reaches westward to Texas and northward to New England. It provides a 200-mile look into offshore disturbances. In Maryland. che giant computers of the National Meteorological Center digest the myriad bits of data-atmospheric pressure, temperature, humidity, surface winds. and winds aloft-received from weather stations and ships monitoring the atmospheric setting each hour, every day. Cloud photographs from spacecraft orbiting the earth are received in Maryland and are studied for che telltale spiral on the warming sea. The crew of United States aircraft over the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean, and Atlantic watch the sky and wait for the storm that will bear a persons name. The machinery of early warning vibrates with new urgency as the season of great storms begins.
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太阳直射光线接近赤道并向北回归线移动。南半球冬季开始了,而赤道北面则是夏季。海洋和天空变得温暖,冬天的极地气团开始逐渐减弱。
太阳北移也为北半球带来了热带气旋季节,而太平洋和印度洋的赤道以南部分却是这个季节的结束。沿着我国和亚洲的海岸,又到了监视海洋、提防夏季暴风的时候了。在整个太平洋上空热带气旋季节从来就不会完全过去,只是强度会有所不同。每年菲律宾东部一带会生成20个暴风咆哮刮向亚洲,但从6月直到整个10月是最糟糕的日子。/在墨西哥西南部,春季和夏季会生成几个太平洋飓风,但是大多数会在海上消亡,或者成为暴风雨而在沙漠的上空或加利福尼亚南部海岸消逝。
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